If you observe a train changing locations, who is moving you or the train? Neither moving - defend your answer

Question

This is a theoretical question for a chemistry course I am taking. Help Please! Thanks

Answer 1

It would depend on your reference frame. A reference frame is one of the basic concepts that Einstein introduced with his theories of relativity. If you are in the train and you see someone walking down the aisle towards the front of the train, you would see them moving. If you were outside the train and the train was just starting to move and was going 2 miles an hour and the man was walking 2 miles an hour, to you, the outside observer watching thru a window (and therefore in a different reference frame), it would look like the person was not moving in relation to you but you would see the train moving. To the observer on the train looking out the window the ground appears to move and the train is stationary. Like Einstein said, it's all relative.

Answer 2

Silly or mistated. There is a common effect of sitting on a train and viewing another close up and the one out side seems to start moving, then your realize your train started very smoothly. But why such would be put in Chemistry and what is missing from this short version escapes me.

Answer 3

The locations are the what is moving. Even though the train and you are motionless the locations can move.

Answer 4

Wait a minute..first you have to decide if the train exists in fact, or just in your mind.